Usually means: Chinese dialect spoken in Guangdong.
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  1. Cantonese: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cantonese: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cantonese: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Cantonese: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cantonese: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cantonese, cantonese: Wordnik
  7. cantonese: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cantonese: Wiktionary
  9. Cantonese: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Cantonese: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Cantonese: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cantonese: Dictionary.com
  13. Cantonese (disambiguation), Cantonese (language), Cantonese: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cantonese: Rhymezone
  15. cantonese: FreeDictionary.org
  16. cantonese: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Cantonese: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Cantonese: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  19. cantonese: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. Cantonese: Merriam-Webster

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cantonese)

▸ adjective:  Relating to the city of Guangzhou (Canton) or the province of Guangdong.
▸ adjective:  Relating to Cantonese people.
▸ adjective:  Relating to Cantonese language.
▸ adjective:  Relating to Cantonese food/cuisine.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) A Sinitic language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of Mainland China, Guangdong (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia and by many overseas Chinese worldwide.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) A dialect of the Cantonese language, spoken in Guangzhou (Canton), Hong Kong, Macau, and treated as the standard dialect of the Cantonese language.
▸ noun:  (countable, chiefly in the plural) An inhabitant of Canton; a person of Canton descent.

Similar:
yue, cantonese dialect, yue dialect, Guangzhouese, Shanghainese, Taishanese, Szechwanese, Chiuchow, Hunanese, Hokkien, more...

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non-Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Teochew, Hakka

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Similar:
yue, cantonese dialect, yue dialect, Guangzhouese, Shanghainese, Taishanese, Szechwanese, Chiuchow, Hunanese, Hokkien, more...

Opposite:
non-Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Teochew, Hakka

Phrases:
Cantonese opera, cantonese dialect, Cantonese people, Cantonese cuisine, Cantonese profanity, Hong Kong Cantonese, Cantonese phonology, Written Cantonese, Yale romanization of Cantonese, more...

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fluent, young, little, standard, colloquial, most, pure, modern, local, native, best

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